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[underwaterbanshee]

Alternate ways Yeza realizes Nott is Veth: -He recognizes her voice. -He’s a brilliant man, he’ll probably recognize an anagram when he sees one. -She casts Hideous Laughter on an enemy by using a joke that Veth/Yeza made themselves.

You are my very first ask and I’m flailing a little inside <3!!!

Can I please have all of these at once?! Just like, he sees this goblin girl who rescued him, she babbles something about being Nott the Brave, not expecting him to even see past the green skin and yellow eyes, and he just...know.

And breathes out her name--so very happy she is alive and here--saving him again.

That will probably be the closest I get to fanfiction ^^;;;;

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What are some other interesting subgenres like southern gothic ?

Oh golly that’s a big question. 

So, there’s surrealist horror (think Welcome to Night Vale and HP Lovecraft), dystopian horror, psychological thriller, and things like that. 

It’s important to note that Southern Gothic is a political genre that is a part of the American Gothic genre. 

American gothic fiction: a subgenre of gothic fiction. Elements specific to American Gothic include: rationality/rational vs irrational, puritanism, guilt, Das Unheimliche (strangeness within the familiar as defined by Sigmund Freud), ab-humans, ghosts, monsters, and domestic abjection.

Southern Gothic is a subgenre of Gothic fiction in American literature that takes place in the American South.

Common themes in Southern Gothic literature include deeply flawed, disturbing or eccentric characters who may or may not dabble in hoodoo,[1] ambivalent gender roles, decayed or derelict settings,[2] grotesque situations, and other sinister events relating to or stemming from poverty, alienation, crime, or violence. (Wikipedia)

So, for example: To Kill A Mocking Bird and literally anything William Faulkner is some classic Southern Gothic. Tennessee Williams and Flannery O’Connor are also classics. 

However, it’s SUPER important to note the following: who is writing it, where are they from, and are they being harmful? Like, HP Lovecraft was super antisemitic and Deliverance is considered SG, but it portrays mountain people as rapists and mentally ill madmen. 

I’d recommend series like True Blood, The Walking Dead, Carnivàle, and AHS: Coven. 

The thing about if there even are subgenres to Southern Gothic is probably going to be a no in my opinion. Southern Gothic is as sub as genres get. It’s niche, political, macabre, social, and multifaceted. You can’t more sub that than. 

Maybe try expanding your horizons with American Folklore, Urban Legends, Southwest Gothic, and Midwest Gothic. 

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As a person that dislikes summer and lives in Texas, I just want to thank you for a blog that takes me back to the one time of year I like. Fall vibes are the best vibes

Aww, thanks so much hun! I relate, though. I spent 4 years in Texas when I was little and HATED the heat and the lack of fall. I’m coming back this summer for an internship. RIP! Hope I continue to impress you with my blog! <3 

[underwaterbanshee]

I read your post but got too excited so I had to drop it and come back to it later! I’m so flattered and excited that I’m your first ask!! I’m glad to know you can’t be normal about this because there is no way I can be either 😂

I think you’re totally on to something about the lie being mundane, since it’s true - adults lie to children all the time.

but I also think Brennan has something sneaky up his sleeve.

Brennan is good at playing the long game with these short episodes, especially when it comes to his characters having layers. What I can’t stop thinking about, is why did he choose the Tula to be a ‘oath of redemption’ paladin? It’s so on brand for her character, ‘the bleeding heart’ type of character, the tender mother that’s doing her best, etc.

What does Tula need redemption from? What made it so engraved in her core being, that redemption is that important to her?

And yes!! Aabria mentioned about a lie of omission, so what didn’t Tula say? Or imply? A lie of omission that is fundamentally important to Tula? It’s CONNECTED I just don’t know how. I feel like that conspiracy board meme guy with the red string. 😂

And I totally agree with you that Lila is in that teenager stage where you start to see through the cracks, the one where your world view is starting to shake. But her IMPLICIT trust in her mom is gonna crush me at some point, there’s some kind of heart break that’s gonna happen and I don’t know if I can handle it 😭

I think there’s some kind of parallel, what I want to fully say is at the tip of my tongue , but I don’t know the words to say it. It’s something about growing up as the eldest daughter, it’s a parallel from Tula and Viola, between Lila and Jaysohn. But the words are lost on me rn 😅

And oh MY I forgot about secrets of NIMH! I think it was stated before that’s who Tula was based off, I completely missed that. My memories from NIHM is kinda blurry, but going off the vibes from my memory, yea I do think Last Bast is more like the secret society than a secret cult, but I don’t know if it’s as good as a society as the rats were? I still get a sinister vibe. I think once we meet the First Stoats, it’ll really clarify what kinda place Last Bast is.

(Also also, would love love to see Tula and Bennet- but what I’d love more is to see Ava and Bennet. Not romantically or anything, their dynamic so funny to me, I can’t wait for the next ep.)

(Little martin also wanted love to win, the CHEMISTRY between these rodents)

I really can’t wait to see how it’ll all turn out, but with that said I also never want it to end.

Aside from Burrows end, what’s your fav D20 campaign? I alway go back and watch the seven for noise in the background, but Metropolis is up there for me, and Neverafter!

Full disclosure, I meant to answer this four episodes ago but real life decided to be rude. So all of my answers at the time are no longer relevant and I wish we could've gone back and forth on thoughts and theories because so much cool shit has happened.

But I can answer your last question!

I started watching d20 live during A Court of Fey and Flowers so it has a special place in my heart. I started watching d20 in general because I missed Lou, Aabria, and Brennan after EXU: Calamity. I immediately watched MisMag, followed by The Seven, (having seen exactly 0 episodes of Fantasy High), before eventually making my way through most of what d20 has to offer. There are just a few that I couldn't get into ^^;;

If I had to pick a favorite, it would be NeverAfter. I love faery tales and their retellings so much, that when they were coupled with another love of mine, alternate universes, those twenty weeks were my comfort actual play show and I want a second season yesterday ^^;;

Anyway, I really want Tula and Bennet to smash. There is one more episode left and maybe it isn't too much to hope for >.>

[underwaterbanshee]

I'm only like 35 episodes in but they search for Grog fairly often lol

I love this so much! It makes me so happy. There is probably a critrole stat out there. I just have to find it >.>

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I live in Florida rip it's not too bad though I've never experienced a real fall™ Halloween is still nice and it's coolish in the fall idk rip

The upside is Halloween at Disney and Universal and Hogwarts, but that’s about it for me. I just have a lot of bad memories associated with FL so I’m hoping that Orlando will be better. I just really love a Northern Fall. You’d love it. It’s incredible! 

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Your blog is beautiful I. Love the fall and the pretty leaves that change color I follow you Do. You follow. Back ♥ 👻 🎃

Sometimes I do it depends on the content of the blog. Since this is a main blog, it never shows even if I do lol. 

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🎃~?

What are you planning on doing for Halloween?

Well, a friend of mine wants to get together and have a Halloween Movie night, my little brother wants me to take him trick or treating, and I really really wanna visit a cemetery. Besides that, just scare the daylights outta people I guess lol.